Recent content by Pilgrimer

Hm. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are arguing that nothing is required to reconcile us with God because only the blood of Jesus can do that. Nothing is required to wash us, to purge us, to deliver us from of sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus can do that. Nothing is...

The year Jesus was born does not define the dates or days on which the Passover was observed. When Nisan (and every month for that matter) began was based solely on when the spotters in Jerusalem saw the first sliver of a crescent of the new moon. So while I have done extensive study on dating...

Here is the link to the datasets of NASA's "Six Millennium Catalog of Lunar Phases" published on AstroPixels NASA dataset Could you please provide a link to the chart you posted of the lunar phases so I can verify it? Obviously, one of us has some wrong information.

I don't know anyone who says that. Certainly not any Christian I have ever heard or read. That is what we are accused of by people who do not understand the power of God's Grace. Grace does not mean being empowered to obey the letter of the Law. Grace means being empowered to obey the Spirit...

Jesus ate his last supper on Thursday evening, which was the beginning of Nisan 15. He was crucified the next day, Friday, which was still Nisan 15 on the Jewish calendar. They would have been eating one of the seven passover meals the evening after Jesus was crucified, the second meal of the...

I don't agree. The Christian Sabbath is "today, if you will hear his voice," you too can cease from your own works and rest in the finished work of Christ. (Hebrews 4) Just as God "rested" (ceased) from His own works of the old physical creation because His work was finished, so too Jesus at...

This is talking about Saturday, the regular weekly Sabbath. In a 7-day festival, one of those 7 days would inevitably fall on a Saturday. If this was talking about the "festival sabbath," there were always two of those sabbaths during the Passover week, the first day and the seventh day. So...

But what you have to demonstrate is scriptural evidence that the day before Nisan 15 was ever called "the preparation." If you are suggesting that it was on the basis of the sacrifices being slain in the temple and the meat roasted in the afternoon in preparation for the meal that evening...

The "Last Supper" was a Passover Seder. The word "seder" means "order" and it refers to the order in which the meal is eaten on the first night of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 after sunset) when the Passover lamb was eaten after having been sacrificed that afternoon of Nisan 14. It is not...

Exodus 12:16 specifically states that the work that was necessary to prepare and eat the feast was allowed to be done even on the festival sabbaths: "And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall...

But the whole seven-day festival was commonly called the Passover, and every day of the feast the people made sacrifices and offerings that they brought home portions of and cooked and ate. There were seven "feast" days and on any of those days, if they became defiled, they would not be able to...

According to Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus and his disciples actually ate the Passover meal together the night before He died. While some try to align His death exactly with the hour of the slaughter of the lambs to emphasize the symbolism, Jesus' single sacrifice actually fulfilled all the...

The "things that were done" included the chief priests and rulers sending Jesus to Pilate charging him with a capital offense that led to his crucifixon. Jesus himself spoke of his suffering and being crucified and rising the third day. His suffering began Thursday night when he was bound and...

There was no preparation day before a festival sabbath, the Torah allowed all the work necessary for them to prepare and eat the Feast to be done on the festival sabbath day per Exodus 12:16. The only day on the Jewish calendar that required a preparation day the day before was the weekly...

I don't believe this is accurate and it is throwing off your entire timeline. Festival sabbaths did not require the previous day to be a day of preparation. The Law for festival sabbaths allowed that work which was necessary to prepare the feast to be done on that sabbath day: "And in the first...